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FREUDIAN SLIP
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A slip-up that (according to Sigmund Freud) results from the operation of unconscious wishes or conflicts and can reveal unconscious processes in normal healthy individuals
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Freudian slip" is a kind of...):
miscue; parapraxis; slip; slip-up (a minor inadvertent mistake usually observed in speech or writing or in small accidents or memory lapses etc.)